This short trip was my only self-supported bicycle tour in Turkey in 2024. I piggy-backed it onto our rainy Bartın Bisiklet Festivali. It was raining when I walked to breakfast my last morning in Amasra, but the rain had stopped before I finished eating. I guess you could say I was lucky with the weather that day. The next rain was mid-afternoon, but it was light and didn’t last.
My last view of Amasra was on the same climb that we had done one of the mornings during the festival. It felt harder with a loaded bicycle. No surprise there, but almost all my touring is with a heavy bicycle, and I tend to forget how much easier it is without carrying stuff.
The second climb was about 400m, and then I descended through İnciğez (with too many nasty dogs)
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